Monday, November 28, 2005

Brave New World

I am making my third attempt to read "Brave New World". It is a vile book.
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  1. Anonymous10:03 AM

    Why are you making your "third attempt" at reading it then? What is so vile about it? Granted it's been about 13 years since I read it last, okay maybe 15... If my memory serves me, it depicts a society numbed by
    pleasentries their government provides, the psychological development of class systems (again provided by the government). The meeting of the new and the "old" worlds. I don't remember many of the details though. Did you know thier is actually a drug on the market named "Soma" I'm not sure what it's used for. What bothers you; the overall ideas behind the story line or the way the ideas unfold or how they are presented?

    Just curious,
    -Mel

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  2. Michael9:50 PM

    I saw it in a list of books that should be read by everyone. A staple of education. Reading Weyrich column at http://www.aim.org/guest_column/3902_0_6_0_C/ finally kicked me over the edge. I was determined to read it. I am almost finished. I am finally to the interesting part where the Savage has rejected the civilized world. He is talking to one of the directors about Shakespeare and philosophy, something that is forbidden for the masses to even know about for fear of disturbance balance and harmony.
    The book is a good warning to our marxist, feely culture.

    I could never get past the first pages before. The tour through the baby factory is disgusting. They contaminate some babies and "condition" all of them for their place in society.

    I guess reading it makes me mad because, like 1984, the author wrote it as a warning for what could happen (more than 70 years ago!) and now much of it is happening.

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  3. Michael10:26 PM

    I finished the book a little earlier than I thought I would. At the end is Brave New World Revisited, a collection of essays by Huxley on over-population, propaganda, education and what can be done.

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